Frick Building

The Frick Building is one of the most striking features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The tower bears the name of Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist and coking plant owner, which grew to a number of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building was directly adjacent to a building that belonged to Andrew Carnegie, built in 1851 on the site of St. Peter 's Episcopal Church, which was after the purchase of the land canceled by Frick and rebuilt in a different location on the Forbes Avenue 1901 again. The local legend says that Frick, who has fallen out with his former business partner Carnegie, the building was built higher than the adjacent Carnegie's because of this dispute, so that it constantly stood in his shadow.

The Frick Building was designed by D. H. Burnham & Company planned and completed in 1902 and originally had twenty floors. Due to the leveling of the terrain surrounding the basement in 1912 to the entrance level, so that in some sources 21 floors are given. It has an altitude of 101 m. The address is 437 Grant Street and the building also has access from Forbes and Fifth Avenue.

The top floor has a wrap around balcony. The high ceilings of the stage are processed by hand, the door hinges are working hard and expensive. Originally the floor was to house Frick's personal office space and richer than meeting industrialist. In the 19th floor Frick had private rooms. His shower was about the time when the highest built-in shower, because water could not be pumped up so far with the available technology. Although the pitch is still, but not in function. Both floors are now home to the offices of Carnegie Learning.

Documents

  • Toker, Franklin: Buildings of Pittsburgh. Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press, Pittsburgh 2007, ISBN 0-8139-2650-5.
  • Glenn A. Walsh ( 2001) History of Industrialist, Art Patron, and Philanthropist Henry Clay Frick
  • Mellon Square Map
  • Chris Potter (2005) You Had To Ask Archives
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